Fence



( o Model.)

J. B. WHITACRE.

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" Patented Aug. 22, 1893:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN B. WHITACRE, OF SHELBYVILLE, ILLINOIS.

FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 503,631, dated August 22, 1893. Application filed October 16, 1891. Serial No. 408901. (No model.)

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts, hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings-Figure 1 is a perspective View of a fence constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view of one of the panels. reverse plan view of the same.

Like numerals of reference indicate corre:

Fig. 3 is a sponding parts in all the figures of the draw in s.

l designates panels of a fence supported upon blocks 2, and flexibly connected by split links 3 engaging staples 4; arranged near the top and bottom of the end bars 5 of the panel.

The split links may be readily connected to and separated from the staple thereby enabling a fence to be quickly set up, and readily taken down When it is desired to remove the same. cal end bars 5 and intermediate bars 6,a horizontal bar 7 secured to the vertical bars near the upper ends of the same, a horizontal sill 8 secured to the lowerend of the vertical bars, inclined braces 9, and horizontal wires 10 and 11 which are secured by staples 12 to the vertical bars. The vertical bars have theirlower ends recessed to provide tenons 13 which are The panel 1 is composed of verti-' secured in recesses 14 and 15 of the sill S and are recessed near their upper ends, and fitted in corresponding recesses of the horizontal bars '7,whereby secure joints are effected. The inclined braces extend from the end of the sill, to the intermediate bar at a point near the upper end of the same, and are socured to the said parts and bear'against the vertical end bars and the horizontal bar, and

their ends are beveled so as to fit fiat against the intermediate bar and the sill.

The wires 11 are secured to the upper ends of the vertical bars which project above the horizontal bars 7, and the wires 10 are secured to the faces of the vertical bars, and are arranged either on the outer or inner faces of the panels; each panel is anchored at one end by astake or post 16, and the panels may be arranged in a straight line or to form a worm fence so as to be able to Withstand severe lateral strain caused by heavy winds and the like.

From the foregoing description and the accompanying drawings the construction, operation and advantages of the invention will be readily understood.

What I claim is- In a fence, the combination of separate in-' dependent fence panels having vertical bars at their ends and provided at the opposed faces of said bars between the ends and the same with vertically arranged staples located within'the side faces of the vertical bars in the spaces between the panels, and the horizontally disposed split links engaging said staples and detachably and flexibly connecting the panels, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aifixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN B. WHITAORE.

Witnesses: W. E. WALKER, ALBERT ALLEN. 

